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Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing
Pickens writes: "Cory Doctorow writes that Ralph Lauren issued a DMCA takedown notice after Boing Boing republished the Photoshop disaster contained in a Ralph Lauren advertisement in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body with the model's head larger than her pelvis. Doctorow says that one of the things that makes their ISP Priority Colo so awesome is that they don't automatically act on DMCA takedowns and proceeded to dare Lauren to sue. 'This is classic fair use: a reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting," etc,' writes Doctorow. 'Copyright law doesn't give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings.' Doctorow adds that every time Lauren threatens to sue he will 'reproduce the original criticism, making damned sure that all our readers get a good, long look at it,' 'publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery,' and 'offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models.'"
That Boing Boing was able to get us the skinny on this.
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Someone page Sir Mix-a-Lot.
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Touched By His Noodley Appendage.
In a few years, when this is forgotten, Ralphy will remember this as one of the skeletons in his closet.
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I'm glad Doctorow had the spine to stand up to this. I really couldn't stomach another battle of talking heads.
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Although it's typical for thin women to have little cleavage, sometimes you see the rare thin woman with large breasts.
I know a woman like that, and hers are silicone. Hint to any young females out there who are thinking about breast augmentation -- silicone gets hard as it ages. When you hit forty, your tits will be hard as rocks. Hers are.
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To attract peacunts, of course.